Text correction: description of a proposal applied in the initial training of portuguese language teachers

Abstract

This article describes a proposal for text correction used in the initial training of Portuguese Language teachers, aiming to reflect on such pedagogical action based on the treatment given in an activity applied to academics on the Portuguese Literature course at a public university, located in interior of the State of Paraíba. To this end, we seek to elucidate the desire to answer the following research question: what do teaching and learning instructions point to the practice of correcting school texts in the initial training of Portuguese language teachers? In the video lesson “How to correct your own essay”, the teaching instructions given using tips are distributed between study techniques and knowledge of the dissertation-argumentative text genre. To carry out this analysis, we adopted netdocumentary research (Sales, 2014), considering that the investigation took place through the internet, in addition to qualitative research (Prodanov; Freitas, 2013), through the mobilization of a problem arising in the field of language. We are also based on theoretical considerations about text production and correction (Geraldi, 1984; Reinado, 2001; Serafini, 2003; Arcoverde; Arcoverde, 2007) to describe and reflect on the way in which Professor Luma guides students to correct their texts themselves.